You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"